In recent days, New York’s Jewish community has been targeted in a series of violent attacks. Just this week, a middle-aged Hasidic Jewish man was brutally beaten by two assailants in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. According to Yaacov Behrman of Chabad Headquarters, the man endured an “excruciating” assault, highlighting an unsettling rise in antisemitic violence that has plagued the city. This incident follows a string of recent attacks, including one against a 13-year-old Jewish boy on his way to school, covered in our previous post here, and another involving a visibly Jewish man who was slashed in the face while walking in Brooklyn.

New York’s rising hostility toward Jewish residents is more than anecdotal; recent reports from the New York State Comptroller revealed that 65% of all felony hate crimes in New York City last year targeted Jewish individuals. According to NYPD data, antisemitic hate crimes in the city have surged since October...